Shame    (video)

 

    G - C - G   - C - G - Am (2x)

 

    G             C                 G

1.     Well, there’s three versions of this story,

                      C               G         Am

    mine and yours and then the truth,

G          C          G                                                  C              G            A

    and we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth.

D                                          Em                                          C

    Out of some sentimental gain I wanted you to feel my pain,

                                               G

    but it came back return to sender,

D                                                Em                                                 C

    I read your mind and tried to call, my tears could fill the Albert Hall,

                                                   D            - D7

    is this the sound of sweet surrender ?

 

 - - - - - - - - - - - - -   G     Am           - C

What a shame we never listened,

   D                              G  Am       - C

I told you through the television,

        D                     G                 Am         C

and all that went away was the price we paid,

   D                     Em               A7                       D

people spend a lifetime this way, oh, what a shame.

 

   G      C        G                                     C         G          Am

2.    So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus,

G          C             G                                      C          G         A

    and with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us.

D                                    Em                                             C

    I wrote a letter in my mind, but the words were so unkind,

                                          G

    about a man I can’t remember,

D                                          Em                                                     C

    I don’t recall the reasons why, I must have meant them at the time,

                                                    D         - D7

    is this the sound of sweet surrender?

 

 - - - - - - - - - - - - -   G     Am           - C

What a shame we never listened,

   D                              G  Am       - C

I told you through the television,

 

 

 

 

 

        D                     G                 Am         C

and all that went away was the price we paid,

   D                    Em                A7

people spend a lifetime this way,

        Em                     A7                      D7

and that’s how they stay, oh, what a shame.

 

        G       E      A          D7               G

+  Words come easy, when they’re true.  (2x)

 

G               Am                  C               D                        G

    So I got busy throwing everybody underneath the bus,

                           Am            C                      D                     G

    and with your poster 30 foot high at the back of Toys-R-Us,

                       Am                  C                             D                            D7

   now we can put it down to circumstance, our childhood, then our youth.

 

 - - - - - - - - - - - - -   G     Am           - C

What a shame we never listened,

   D                              G   Am       - C

I told you through the television,

        D                     G                 Am         C

and all that went away was the price we paid,

   D                     Em               A7          Em                    A7

people spend a lifetime this way, and that’s how they stay,

                          Em               A7                      D7

people spend a lifetime this way, oh, what a shame.

 

                   G     - C - G   C - G - A7      C                                   G

+ What a shame,             o...............h, such a shame, what a shame.

 

(orig. = capo 3rd)    (Take That, Robbie Williams and Gary Barlow)